Becoming Free in the Cotton South.

By:

O'Donovan, Susan Eva

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674041608

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Becoming Free in the Cotton SouthDDC classification:

973.7/11409758

LOC classification:

E445

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Doing the Master's Bidding -- 2. Civil War in the Land of Goshen -- 3. Finding Freedom's Edges -- 4. Black Women and the Domestication of Free Labor -- 5. To Make a Laborers' State -- Coda: That Strange Land of Shadows -- Notes -- Index.

Summary: This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or end of the story, O'Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War.

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This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or end of the story, O'Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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